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FOYLE (1915)
Service dates: 1918-1934
Official number: 139093
Shipping lines: MERCANTILE STEAMSHIP COMPANY; HAIN STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 29.06.1915
- Launched.
- 10.1915
- Completed as Foyle for the Mercantile Steam Ship Company Ltd, London.
- 1917
- E Hain & Son appointed managers.
- 07.02.1918
- Takeover of the Mercantile Steam Ship Company Ltd by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 08.11.1923
- Transferred to the Hain Steamship Company Ltd.
- 1934
- Sold for £9,750 to Rethymnis & Kulukundis (Hellas) Ltd, and D E and M Lemos (Rethymnis & Kulukundis Ltd, managers), Greece, and renamed Delphoi.
- 1936
- Owners restyled D P, M G & E P Lemos and Rethymnis & Kulukundis (Hellas) Ltd.
- 09.11.1938
- Stranded at Chekka, Syriam, refloated, sold to Italian shipbreakers, repaired, and returned to service.
- 09.1943
- Scuttled at Bari.
- 1947
- Salved, repaired, and returned to service.
- 1958
- Owners restyled as Febo Amedeo Bertorello fu Giacomo.
- 1960
- Sold to British Iron & Steel Corporation, allocated to P&W McLellan Ltd, demolished.